English Wordbook/L
From The Anglish Moot
Staff L of the English Wordbook.
| labo(u)r | vb | swink, work, slog |
| labo(u)rer | n | worker |
| laboratory | n | workroom, workhall |
| laborious2 | adj | hardworking, worksome, slogsome |
| labour | vb | swink, work, slog, arfeth |
| labour | n | work, slog, (med) childbirth |
| labyrinth | n | maze |
| lacerate | vb | cut |
| lackadaisical | adj | lackadaisy, listless, lazy |
| lacklustre | adj | dim, dull, leaden, lifeless, dead, brightless |
| lactose | n | milksugar |
| lager (beer) | n | lairbeer/ lair beer |
| lake | n | mere, water |
| lambaste | vb | taw |
| lament | vb | mourn, bemoan, moan, wail, weep, yammer |
| lamp | n | light, crusie |
| lampion | n | lightvat |
| language | n | tongue, speech, leid |
| languish | vb | pine, dwindle, droop, ebb, lessen, lose strength, wane, wither, weaken, wear away, dwine |
| lanolin | n | wool wax, wool fat |
| lantern | n | lightdecker |
| lapidary | n | gem-cutter, stone-cutter, gem-shaper, stone-shaper |
| lapse | n | oversight |
| large | adj | big, broad, mickle |
| largely | adj | mostly |
| lascivious | adj | lustful, wanton |
| laser | n | lightningray |
| laserprinter | n | lightning printer |
| lasso | n | snare |
| launch | vb | fire |
| launder | vb | wash, clean |
| laundrette | n | washinghouse, washhouse |
| laundry | n | washing |
| lava | n | fireslime |
| laxitive | n | loosener |
| laxitive | adj | loosensome |
| layman | n | byfellow |
| LCD | n | frostscreen |
| lease | vb | let |
| leash | n | lead, tether |
| least | adj(superlative) | smallest, littlest, lowest, slightest |
| lecture | n | reading |
| lecturer | n | lorespeaker, reader |
| lederhosen | n | leatherhose |
| leg | n | shank |
| legacy | n | bequest |
| legal | adj | law, lawful |
| legalise | vb | make lawful |
| legend | n | folktale |
| legible | adj | readly |
| legislator | n | lawmaker, lawgiver |
| legislature | n | lawmaking body |
| legitimate | adj | rightful, (of birth) fullborn, lawful |
| leisure | n | freedom from business, time off, free-time, holiday, rest, spare time, freedom, idleness, time to spare |
| leisure | adj | not busy, busiless, free, off, off work, idle, free-time, holiday, rest |
| leisure, have | vb | take one's time, rest, loaf, while away the time, be an idle man |
| lemon | n | sourapple |
| lepidopterines | n | moth, candle-fly, night-butterfly |
| leporine | n | hare, furze-cat |
| lepton | n | lightmote |
| -let | suff | -ling |
| lethal | adj | deadly |
| lethargic | adj | sluggish, listless |
| lethargy | n | listlessness, sluggishness |
| letter | n | (a writting) errandwrit, (that makes a word) staff, stave |
| leukemia | n | blood canker |
| leukocyte | n | white bloodcell |
| level | n | gauge, tier |
| leverage | n | swape |
| leveret | n | hareling |
| lexicon | n | wordbook |
| liable | adj | likely |
| liberal | adj | free-hearted, open-handed |
| liberalism | n | freebeingness |
| liberate | vb | free, loose |
| liberty | n | free will, freedom |
| library | n | bookhouse, bookhoard, bookshelf |
| lichen | n | lungwort |
| lieutenant | n | steadholder |
| lieutenant, second | n | shavetail |
| ligature | n | belt, binding, strap, string, |
| limerence | n | crush |
| limit | n | bound, threshold, cap, stint |
| limit | vb | bound, cap, stint |
| limitation | n | cramp |
| line | n | stroke |
| lineage | n | blood-ties, house, strain, seed |
| linear | adj | straightwise, straight |
| lingerie | n | knickerwear, women's underwear, smallclothes |
| lingua franca | n | shared tung, binding tung |
| linguistics | n | speechlore |
| linoleum | n | corksail |
| lion | n | manecat |
| liquid | n | bree, wettock, flowstuff |
| liquid | adj | flowsome |
| list | n | foredrawn |
| literary | adj | written |
| literature | n | booklore, bookware, bookcraft, the written word, writings, written works |
| lithography | n | stone-printing |
| little girl | n | maidkin |
| littoral | adj | seashore, |
| locality | n | shire, bystead, neighbourhood |
| locate | vb | find, (by chance) happen upon |
| location, approx. | n | whereabouts |
| locomotive | n | traindragger |
| lodge | n | inn, guesthouse, bed & breakfast; watchman's hut, shed, cote, hunting-cote, gatehouse, townhouse |
| lodge | vb | dwell; stow, set down, stow, salt away |
| lodger | n | boarder, board & roomer, roomer, homesteader |
| logarithme | n | splitnumber |
| logic | n | redemete |
| logo | n | brandmark |
| -logy, -log, -logue | suff | be-speak, lore |
| longitude | n | length |
| loquacious | adj | talkative, feather-tongued |
| lounge | n | living room, sitting room |
| lounge | vb | do nothing, idle, idle blissfully, lie around, moon, |
| loyal | adj | true-hearted, trothen, true |
| loyalist | n | stalwart |
| loyalty | n | true-heartedness, fayful |
| lucifer | n | lightbringer, firesplinter |
| lumpenproleteriat, the | n | the rabble, the underrabble, the ragamuffins |
| lunacy | n | moonmadness, mad |
| lunar | adj | moon |
| lunatic | n | madman, moonmad |
| luster | n | gloss |
| lycanthropy | n | werewolf-sickness, shapeshifter-sickness |
| lynx | n | lox |
| lysosome | n | selfkillbag |
